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Seattle Now & Then: Polk’s Potlatch Parade, 1911
(click to enlarge photos) THEN: A float for the 1911 Potlatch parade carries piggyback a smaller 1897 version of a Polk City Directory on a much bigger 1911 copy. The fourteen years between them is...
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Seattle Now & Then: Unitarian Drama
(click to enlarge photos) THEN: First dedicated in 1889 by Seattle’s Unitarians, the congregation soon needed a larger sanctuary and moved to Capitol Hill. Here on 7th Avenue, their first home was next...
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Seattle Now & Then: A Methodist Revival on Union Street
(click to enlarge photos) THEN: The “then” photo looks southeast across Union Street to the old territorial university campus. It was recorded in the Fall of 1907, briefly before the old park-like...
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Seattle Now & Then: Madison’s Lost Poplars
(click to enlarge photos) THEN: Looking west on Madison Street from Seventh Avenue circa 1909. (Courtesy, Washington State Museum, Tacoma) NOW: Aside from the Dover Apartments at 901 6th Avenue, that...
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Seattle Now & Then: The Post-Fire Post-Intelligencer
(click to enlarge photos) THEN: In the late afternoon and evening of Seattle’s Great Fire day, June 6, 1889, Leigh and Lizzie Hunt’s home at the northwest corner of Fourth Avenue and Columbia Street...
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Seattle Now & Then: The “Finest Fruit”
(click to enlarge photos) THEN: Local candy-maker A.W. Piper was celebrated here for his crème cakes and wedding cakes and also his cartoons. This sketch is of the 1882 lynching from the Maple trees...
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Seattle Now & Then: The Fremont Trolley Barn
(click to enlarge photos) THEN: One of a few photographs recording from different prospects the Fremont trolley car barn on Dec.11, 1936. North 35th Street, on the right, was originally named Blewett...
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Seattle Now & Then: Roll on, Columbia Street
(click to enlarge photos) THEN: In this 1887 look up Columbia Street from the waterfront is the bell tower of the fire station, tucked into the hill on the right. It would soon fail to halt the city’s...
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Seattle Now & Then: Comet becomes Star
(click to enlarge photos) THEN: Faced, in part, with brick veneer and stucco, and opened in 191l, the Comet Apartments at 170 11th Avenue have made it nicely through their first century. (Courtesy,...
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Seattle Now & Then: The Sinking Ship
(click to enlarge photos) THEN: In Lawton Gowey’s 1961 pairing, the Smith Tower (1914) was the tallest building in Seattle, and the Pioneer Square landmark Seattle Hotel (1890) had lost most of its top...
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